ESD / Safety Engineer

ReOrbit is looking for a motivated and experienced ESD / Safety Engineer to join our growing team at our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.

As our new ESD / Safety Engineer, you will be responsible for establishing and maintaining ESD control and safety practices across spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) activities. You will play a key role in ensuring that flight hardware, personnel, facilities and test activities comply with applicable ESD, safety, cleanroom and environmental requirements.

You will work closely with AIT, Product Assurance and engineering teams to define safe and controlled integration and test environments, support hazard identification and risk mitigation, and ensure that ESD and safety requirements are consistently implemented throughout AIT operations.

It's an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact, to reach our goal of pushing the boundaries of space data transfer.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the ESD Control Plan for spacecraft AIT operations.

• Ensure compliance with applicable ESD standards, including ECSS-Q-ST-20-07 or equivalent standards.

• Classify hardware according to ESD sensitivity levels and define appropriate handling requirements.

• Specify ESD Protected Areas (EPAs), grounding concepts and ESD-safe tools and equipment.

• Verify the correct use of wrist straps, grounding systems and ESD-safe workstations.

• Conduct regular ESD audits and inspections across cleanrooms and AIT areas.

• Investigate, document and report ESD-related incidents and non-conformances.

• Define and implement safety procedures for spacecraft integration, testing and handling activities.

• Perform hazard analyses and risk assessments for AIT operations.

• Ensure the safe handling of flight hardware, test equipment and hazardous systems.

• Participate in safety reviews, test readiness reviews and other AIT review activities.

• Define and maintain lock-out/tag-out and access control procedures where required.

• Ensure compliance with cleanroom procedures and environmental requirements.

• Coordinate contamination control activities in collaboration with AIT and engineering teams.

• Monitor and maintain appropriate humidity, temperature and particle-level requirements.

• Develop and deliver ESD and safety training programs for AIT and engineering personnel.

• Certify and maintain personnel qualifications for critical operations where required.

• Promote a strong safety and compliance culture across AIT teams.

• Work closely with AIT, Product Assurance and engineering teams to ensure ESD and safety requirements are incorporated into AIT processes and configurations.

• Coordinate with engineering teams to ensure design-for-ESD and safety considerations are addressed throughout the spacecraft lifecycle.

• Support the definition and review of safe test configurations and operational procedures.

• Perform ESD verification checks and safety inspections during AIT activities.

• Maintain compliance records, inspection reports and safety logs.

• Support internal and external audits and ensure timely closure of identified findings.

• Investigate ESD, safety and environmental incidents.

• Support the management of non-conformance reports (NCRs) and corrective actions.

• Perform root cause analysis and define appropriate mitigation and preventive actions.

• Track corrective actions through to closure and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent qualification.

• Professional experience in ESD control, safety engineering or a related field, preferably within a high-reliability engineering environment.

• Knowledge of ESD control principles, grounding concepts and ESD-safe working practices.

• Knowledge of applicable ECSS standards and requirements.

• Understanding of cleanroom operations, contamination control and environmental monitoring.

• Experience with risk assessment, hazard identification and safety procedures.

• Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to compliance and documentation.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering and AIT teams.

• Experience working on satellite AIT campaigns or spacecraft integration and test activities.

• Certification or formal training in ESD control and/or occupational safety.

• Experience working in cleanroom environments and with flight hardware.

• Familiarity with digital AIT environments, configuration management and electronic documentation systems.

• Experience with non-conformance management, root cause analysis and corrective actions.

• Knowledge of additional space industry standards and best practices related to AIT safety and product assurance.

What does ReOrbit do?

ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.

ReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiaries in Bristol, UK, Bariloche, Argentina and Bengaluru, India.

Working at ReOrbit

At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength.

We offer

• Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.

• Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .

• Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor.

• We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.

• We support relocation and integration into Finnish society.

Join us in our journey of building software enabled satellites for secure communications
and, thus, creating the most compelling in space data flow company of the new space era.

The Company may require a security clearance for certain positions. Any such security clearance will be conducted in accordance with applicable law and the Company's relevant policies

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